Philosophies & Movements
Doomer (AI context)
A label, sometimes self-applied and sometimes used as an insult by critics, for people who believe advanced AI poses a high probability of catastrophic risk and who favor slowing or halting frontier development.
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Adapted from the broader “-oomer” internet meme format (2018); its specific AI application has no single documented first use — it circulated organically in AI discourse from around 2022–2023, gaining wide use amid the 2023 debates between safety advocates and e/acc adherents.
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